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Re: Heavy Pontiac
Some additions:
Throw away all the pollution controls. (like you left them in place anyways, right?)
Use headers instead of cast iron manifolds. Consider a big single exhaust in place of a duals system.
Use a shorty oil filter
Avoid a cast-iron manual trans. Look for an aluminum one.
Some cars, such as older GM's came with both, depending on the options.
Remember those post-1973 GM cars with the telescoping bumper shock mounts?
Throw away the shocks and the big, heavy shims used to align the bumpers. Weld up some simple mounts out of tubing.
Or remove the steel bumpers altogether and fabricate roll pans, front and back.
For that matter, some older cars look great with no bumpers at all.
Toss the gas tank and run an aluminum fuel cell in the trunk.
Look for anti-vibration tuning weights hanging off the axle, transmission or chassis (Ford loved to use these) and toss them.
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